Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department issues on the language in which vets in EU nations must complete health certificates for goods imported into the UK under the Border Target Operating Model.

It is for EU member states to translate our model health certificates into their own languages for use by their relevant competent authority staff including official veterinarians and plant health inspectors.

This is a requirement of Official Control Regulations (article 89) and will be understood by the certifying official veterinarian completing the certificate.